Trump Wants to Polygraph His Own Staff

The NY Times has published an op-ed and since Thursday, an anoynymous senior Trump advisor has admitted to “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of [the president’s] agenda and his worst inclinations”, the White House been in panic. Trump wants his staff to take a polygraph test.

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To track down the members of what the Times op-ed termed the “steady state", senior aides who keep in check a president they view as erratic but whom they are enabling in order to achieve their own policy objectives.Senator Rand Paul recently raised the prospect of subjecting everyone in the White House who holds a security clearance to a polygraph examination in order to root out leakers even those who share unclassified information. The polygraph is merely a device that evaluates various physiological reactions your body makes when answering questions. It measures your heart rate, respiration and perspiration, among other things. Examiners are trained how to “read between the lines” in terms of what those measurements may suggest about the truthfulness of your answers.

Leave it to Trump to think of so many more ways to look foolish in front of the entire nation. You should have already vetted your staff prior to hiring or appointment and from there, you should already trust that they have your back 100%. If not, there's something wrong with you and not them. Paranoid much?!

A substantial element to the process of a polygraph is psychological. It isn't so much"a magic machine will tell us if you're lying;" It's about the whole process and the environment and being interrogated by a trained interrogator.

If the person or persons who authored this opinion piece wanted to increase tension and distrust in the Trump administration, initiating widespread polygraphing is going to further that goal. It will sow more chaos and more dissension within the ranks.